A completely theoretical approach for assessing fouling propensity along a full-scale reverse osmosis process

Desalination

Volumn 301, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-9

  Alhseinat, Emad ^a   Sheikholeslami, Roya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crystallization; Desalination; Fouling; Precipitation; Reverse osmosis; Scaling; SPI

Indexed keywords

APPLIED PRESSURE; CONCENTRATION POLARIZATION; CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; CROSSFLOW VELOCITIES; EMPIRICAL PARAMETERS; FEED CHANNEL; FEED WATER; FEED WATER TEMPERATURES; FOULANTS; MEMBRANE CHANNELS; MEMBRANE FILTRATIONS; MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; OPERATING VARIABLES; RO PROCESS; SCALING; SPECIFIC DESIGN; SPI; THEORETICAL APPROACH;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DESALINATION; MICROFILTRATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REVERSE OSMOSIS; WATER FILTRATION;

FOULING;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CRYSTALLIZATION; DESALINATION; FILTRATION; FOULING; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84864054609     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2011.12.014     Document Type: Article

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